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Recent news from the Department of Biology

People squat and stand next to the shoreline of Lake Tahoe and smile toward the camera.

International collaborations strengthened at Lake Tahoe Summit

USAID group hosted by University of Nevada, Reno attends Lake Tahoe Summit

A chickadee with a pink band on its leg stands on a feeder box with a seed in its mouth.

Chickadees with better spatial memory live longer

A research study published in Science shows better spatial memory is linked to longer lifespan in food-caching chickadees

A person's hands reach into a fridge and hold up a brown labeled tag on a white bag.

Banking on Nevada's native seeds

An effort to supply Nevada plant seeds at the local, state and federal levels receives federal funding